Topics Started by Jeffro
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Seven times
by Jeffro inthe book of daniel was almost certainly written in the 2nd century bce, probably based on some historical accounts mixed with jewish folklore.
with that in mind, and given that there isn't any evidence that nebuchadnezzar went insane for seven 'times', is there any other period from which the reference to "seven times" at daniel 4:13-17 may be derived?.
i continued beholding in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, look!
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"Blunders that led to World War"
by Jeffro inon the watchtower.org site at the moment, they are featuring a link to an article that first appeared in the august 2009 awake!
that purportedly talks about how world war i began.. in jw make-believe land, world war i began suddenly, and was essentially a big surprise.
so it's interesting to note that the one of the most significant things that led to world war ithe first and second balkan warsare completely omitted from the article.
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European Adventure
by Jeffro infor the next 9 months, starting in june, i will be in europe (after a couple of weeks in south africa).
i'll be starting with a tour for a few weeks in turkey and greece, and then my schedule is very, very flexible.
i'll be based in london, and hopefully i'll be able to pick up some work there for some of the time.
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Revelation - It's Grand Climax Adjusted
by Jeffro inhaving received a copy of the new watchtower library cd, i decided to do a comparison of what actually changed with the updated revelation book.
i was expecting some significant changes with some 'new light' for the 'trumpet blasts' or other 'important' stuff, but in all, i thought the changes were mostly quite mundane, though some seem a little crafty for different reasons.
any thoughts.... throughout.
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Independent Thinking
by Jeffro ini decided to do a search of the watchtower library cd on the phrase 'independent thinking'.
only three times is it ever spoken of as being a good thing.
and those three instances are quite telling about the insidiousness of all of the other times that jw publications consider independent thinking to be such a bad thing.. .
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NWT Revisions
by Jeffro inthere is mention on a wikipedia article that there was a 2006 revision of the nwt.
is this true?
what differences are there?
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Blogs
by Jeffro inhow many people around here maintain a blog?.
i've been hosting a site for about 2 years, with a 'proper' wordpress blog for about half of that time, but no one really seems to know it exists, and i only get about one hit per day (apart from a few search engine crawlers and the odd hacking attempt).
i initially set it up chiefly as an academic exercise to learn a little about php and sql servers.. unfortunately my life hasn't been incredibly remarkable (or rather, the remarkable things have not been things i've wanted the world at large to know about), so i haven't had a great deal of feedback (apart from the 607 article posted there), though i've put a few posts on my recent holiday on there.. if you want to have a look, or you're just feeling particularly bored, it's here.